January 26, 2014

"Tom Ewing, who turned 100 in November, has a few years on Peyton Manning," begins a feature on the 1935 DePauw University graduate published in the News-Gazette of East Central Illinois. "So if matched against the veteran Broncos quarterback on the football field, Tom knows his limitations." (photo: John Dixon/News-Gazette)

Ewing tells the newspaper, "Even though (Manning) is getting older, I don't think I could catch him."

As Jim Rossow writes, "Back in the day, Tom gave guys like Manning fits. A DePauw University Hall of Famer who played end on the school's unbeaten 1933 football team, Tom was what kids today would call a 'beast,' an old-school type who didn't mind mixing it up in a leather helmet."

Ewing, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was a psychology major and Rector Scholar ar DePauw and now lives at Clark-Lindsey Retirement Village in Urbana. As a member of the nation's last undefeated, untied and unscored upon football team, he's called upon by Rossow to predict the outcome of Super Bowl XLVIII. (at left: the 1933 Tigers in action)

"I have the Broncos 25-5," Dr. Ewing tells the paper. "The other team is the defensive team, Denver is the offensive team. So I pick offense over defense in this case."

You'll find the complete article, which is accompanied by a photo of Thomas N. Ewing Jr. with his DePauw Athletic Hall of Fame plaque, at the News-Gazette's website.